abstract:Supreme National Security Council ( Shoraye Aliye Amniate Melli) is the national security council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the current secretary of which is Ali Shamkhani. This institution was founded during the 1989 revision of the constitution.
Apart from the many questions about Tuesday's agreement that remain unanswered, it will have no standing until ratified by Iran's SupremeNationalSecurityCouncil.
Mr Jalili, who heads Iran's supremenationalsecuritycouncil and is considered a senior aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters that "kidnapping innocent people is not acceptable anywhere", Iran's official news agency Irna reported.
In addition to being the deputy chairman of Iran's SupremeNationalSecurityCouncil, Jafari, as he is known here, is a Revolutionary Guard commander who was implicated in the assassination of an Iranian opposition leader in Vienna in 1989.